An award-winning pastel painter, Phill Thompson is a self-described “illusionist.”  He doesn’t do photo realism.  He does aura.* His approach is KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).  Addressing a simple composition with a limited palette, he paints spots of color, leaving it to the viewer to mentally complete the image and, in so doing, experience the essence of the thing

    Phill is a signature member of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod and a member of the Cape Cod Plein-Air Painters.  He has studied with a number of South Shore artists, including Roz Farbush and Mary Lizotte; with the Cape Cod pastel-painter Rosalie Nadeau; and, most importantly, with his wife, the artist Merylle-Lee Thompson.

    In the Mid-Cape area Phill is represented by The Art House Gallery, Brewster, MA.

 

Phill's recent awards include:

•    First in Pastel CCAA Fall 2007 Members

•    First in Pastel CCAA Spring 2007 Open Juried

•    First in Mixed Meds- Cape Cod Art (CCAA), Members

•    First in Paste[-CCAA, All Cape, 2007

•    First in Pastel- CCAA Fall Open 2006                                        

•    First in Pastel- CCAA Members, 2006

•    Best in Show- CCAA Members, 2005

•    First in Pastel- CCAA Fall open 2004

•    First in Pastel- Chatham Creative Arts enter (CAC) Leo Diehl, 2004

•    2nd Runner Up- Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, “For Pastel Only,” 2004

•    Best in Show- CAC Leo Diehl, 2003

•    First in Pastel- CCAA All New England, 2002

•    People’s Choice Award- Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod exhibit, 2002